Commercial Composting

[themainewatch]

If one has the land and the will to make compost, there is plenty of material out there. Just the restaurants alone create tons of the stuff. I bet most managers/owners would be open to the idea if they don't have to go out of their way

[cookingupastory]

@themainewatch I think that's what worked so well with this program - the separated food waste went outside into bins next to the others, which were picked up and taken to the compost facility. When this video was made the waste was being driven to a facility outside of Seattle, but now a facility is opening nearby (in Portland).

[emerson24]

Do people shit in a bucket instead of the toilet, too?

[Allen2045]

I work in a resturant have compost bins at home and Im able to take all the scraps I want for my compost bins. IM also going to start worm composting and will be able to use more scraps.

[jeswhang]

thanks to all the comments for the great information... and to cookingupastory for posting about composting!

[vsaroca]

Seattle has composting pickup for everyone

[xkillerjack]

ty restarunt

[nongb00]

I think what you are doing is GREAT. I wish everyone would get involed. More cities should offer picking up compost from restaurants.

[YERTians]

I think that a couple of the most powerful green businesses have started with compost-- particularly TerraCycle and Growing Power. Seems to me that compost might create a strategic advantage for companies that are forward-thinking enough to collect it. It is basically a pile of free nutrients available at potentially every restaurant and home! Free!!

[nomadicpizza]

nice work!

[impalapez]

Awesome!! Not pure organic of course, but better than miles ahead of most!!!

[AmericasThirdParty]

Very cool-commercial composting. Do all the restaurants in Portland do this...if not they should. At America's Third Party, we would love to see this nationwide at all restaurants and grocery stores. It would be a great way to rebuild our soil naturally!

[shopken1]

Not "pure" organic but practical

[1yK3Y4]

damn, that's awesome! i just hope more people start doing stuff like this. not just at restaurants, but starting right at home

[EnviroMonster]

That is fantastic.I have never been to a restaurant that did not give me too much food.My grandparents generation did not have the luxury of throwing away anything and we have lost sight of that.Sustainability starts at home and work.Don't spoil the soil.

[cookingupastory]

Here, Here! Don't spoil the soil !!!

[shopken1]

Take it home and reheat it for another meal

Feed the container to the worm bin

[ibwhite]

Outstanding video! I have two large compost heaps, and last year I collected 80 bags of leaves from neighbors without having to rake any leaves in my own yard :-) Now the neighbors' composted leaves are being used in my garden to keep the moisture in. Great job!

B

[cookingupastory]

That's awesome, B. You're doing you're part too! I may do something like that myself this fall... I just added 4 growing beds to my yard. Not growing as much as you, though!

[rosey4exclaim]

This is cool. In my neighborhood, we have a yard waste can in which we put our kitchen compost (we don't have room in our yard for a compost pile of our own). Everything from those cans goes to a composting place that also uses solid wastes from the water treatment plant. Yay for Sonoma County!

[cookingupastory]

That is great! Do you know what they do with the compost? I'm glad to hear, it is recycled.

[rosey4exclaim]

I think they sell it to local farmers or something. I know they only sell it in large quantities, like in truck-loads.

[thrivesurvive]

i wasn't aware you could compost cooked food. I am a raw vegan so I compost all of my raw produce clippings and my son's egg shells and tea bags, but I thought putting cooked food in would just smell and not really give anything good to the soil. Was I wrong? It looked like some cooked food went in.

[cookingupastory]

Good question, thrivesurvive, and good observation. My guess is since this goes to a commercial large-scale composting site, it is set up differently than for those of us who do it in our backyard. There is a link to 'what we recycle' on the website where the composting is done: cedar-grove. com

[thrivesurvive]

Thank you for your response. I'll check it out.

[averagebetty]

Composting is good not just for the environment and your garden... but your soul ;)

[cookingupastory]

Right you are =)

[Octahoney]

"BE the change you wish to see in the world" -Ghandi

:)

Awesome Video!

[cookingupastory]

Yes, Kathleen and everyone at the Bijou are great examples of that quote, which, btw, is one of my favorites!

[aduziproductions]

I'm a compost man.....I'm a compost fan.....I have a compost can.....and a compost tan.....

great video

Your Frienduzi,

Aduzi

[cookingupastory]

Aduzi:

You're a poet

and

I hope you know it!

[UmbaFlicks]

Great video.

[dontellnobody2]

yumm 5 star!

[Suzanne42]

Wonderful video.